Oceanside Jewish Center ("OJC") is affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. We are an egalitarian congregation and a nurturing community which provides opportunities for Jews of all ages and backgrounds to live in the presence of God through religious observance, Jewish learning and acts of social responsibility. Fax: (516) 536-0347 and www.oceansidejc.org

This is our OJC Website. Participation in this website by our members is encouraged. If you have any news, pictures, files or event information please email it to our web master. You can drop off what you have at the main office marked attention, Stuart Talkofsky.

To contact our office via email please email us at mainoffice@oceansidejc.org SHABBAT MORNING SERVICE 9:00 AM (Downstairs) HYMOWITZ-MYERS CHAPEL HUKKAT-BALAK Torah: pp. 880-908 Haftorah: pp. 915-917 MINCHA/MA’ARIV SERVICES 8:00 PM click the above to email  Paula Spector Jewish National Fund and Oceanside Jewish Center presentAward-Winning Israeli Environmentalist - Professor Alon Tal   PHOTOS OF THIS EVENT Which Occured Wed, June, 17 2009  A South Shore Long Island Community Event PHOTOS OF SISTERHOOD'S TRIP TO THE LOWER EAST SIDE  MAY 3, 2009 ARE NOW POSTED. CLICK ON THIS TO SEE.    Photos of our Burning of The Chometz Occured April 8, 2009 (CLICK THIS LINK) RAFFLE POSTPONED UNTIL FALL SPECIAL LIMITED RAFFLE Raffle Limited to only 300 tickets! $50 Each The raffle is limited to 300 tickets at $50.00 each. Three prizes will be awarded: 1st Prize: $3,000, 2nd Prize: $1250, 3rd Prize: $500. There will be a cash prize for the person who sells the most tickets Support our Synagogue and the local community. (click on ticket to see larger version of the ticket) A portion of the proceeds will go to Camp Sunrise, a program of the Friedberg JCC of Oceanside. It is the only dedicated day camp in the nation designed for children with cancer on a nonsectarian basis.  See Our Letter for More Information Drawing, May 31, 2009  "You got to be in it to win it!" Rabbi Greenspan's Weekly Review Of Torah -- Torah Table Talk Abraham and Balak: How We Use Our Gifts Parshat Chukkat-Balak, Numbers 19:1 – 25:9 (CURRENT PUBLICATION)   Rabbi Greenspan's Weekly Review Of Torah -- Torah Table Talk Prior week's and year's Torah Table Talk can be viewed- http://www.oceansidejc.org/parsha.htm We are currently updating prior year's PASSOVER ALL YEAR AROUND Haggadot Translations and Adaptations by Rabbi Mark Greenspan OJC's Email List and Archives Be the first in the know, get yourself on our email list or view the archives for all email we sent out. We send out emails about events and condolences. OJC Now Has A Facebook Group!! Announce, Discuss, Post, Share (corrected from bad link earlier) We have Joined the 21st Century! (click above to go to Facebook Group) Open to everyone with a Facebook account ( www.facebook.com ) to view this public Facebook group. It is FREE except, you have to give up information about yourself (it is up to you what you tell them).   You do not have to "friend" (a facebook term) anyone to join our group, thus keeping your privacy. You do have to join the goup in order to post. Every Facebook registrant can read what is posted. Members of this Group will be able to post: Discussions, Links, Photos, Announce Events - personal, religious, synagogue related, or appropriate outside information. This is OUR group, members of this group decide what to talk about. We do reserve the right to delete inappropriate material. We do not want to censor and administer as little as possible. This will be maintained by several administrators. Reserved Seats for the High Holy Days are still available until May 31, 2009 with the prepayment of your 2009-2010 dues. Call Len Lerner at 536-6112 ext 14 Kol Ha-Neshamah Minyan (KHNM) (click on the link above to see our KHNM Page) Next Meeting to be in September Held One Shabbat A Month in our Multi-Purpose Room. This is an alternative to our Traditional weekly Shabbat Service held in the main sanctuary. Read more about this fully congregational participating service, by visiting the KHNM page. A schedule is posted there too. Making Women Count Imahot, Amida and Self-Image This morning we’re going to do something we’ve never done before in our synagogue – at least not as an official congregational act. During Musaf we’re going to include the Matriarchs in the opening blessing of the Amida. Please read about a change in the service at our synagogue, explained by Rabbi Greenspan. Parshat Bemidbar 5769 OJC and Inclusion of People with Disabilities. Information about OJC, and how we are enhancing our synagogue to include everyone. (Click on the words above for further informaiton.) Bar and Bat Mitzvah Schedules have been updated as of  May 2, 2009. Click this to see the listing.   Please contact your webmaster, if there are any events that you want the rest of the congregation to know about, via our website Perhaps there is more information about certain services in which you think this website can enhance upon, please contact us, we will work with you in expanding online coverage. If there will be an event at OJC you will be attending, please bring a camera, take some photos of the event. We want to show Oceanside Jewish Center as a place full of life. We are sure our members who attended would enjoy seeing it for years to come. If you had an event or attended an event recently that is OJC related, please send us photos, either via email or drop them off at the office to Stuart Talkofsky's our webmaster's attention You may contact our webmaster via emailing him webmaster@oceansidejc.org

Our Professional Staff Our telephone number is 516-536-6112
President Jeffrey Hahn	Executive Vice President William Gurman	Rabbi Mark B.Greenspan	Cantor Gadi Elon
Sexton Steven Barr	Education Director Yitzchak Dees	Early Childhood Director Anita Hoine	Youth Director Andrea Moskowitz